Miss-Representation

Miss-Representation was an eye-opening film as it placed women in a much lower-role in society than what I ever expected.  I knew that for commercials and movies women would wear as much sexual appealing clothing as possible to attract new customers.  Also, that Americans are obsessed with the highly-impossible looks that women try to achieve every day. 

First off the looks are computerized, with much of the women’s physical feature having been changed or re-imaged  Women will not stop at anything as long as they have secured the best human attractiveness possible. This trickles down to the young girls as they realize the only way to be successful and pretty in society today is to look perfect and never stop changing your body. 

The TV show Toddlers and Tiaras is a prime example of how young girls think they should look and see as beautiful.  The problem I see is their moms or coaches in this case are not anywhere as attractive as they want their daughters to become.  I feel like the moms/coaches put these girls through these beauty pageants and try to make them as beautiful, because they never got that as young girls and this is the only way they know how to reach that goal. 

Thus, when these girls grow up they have the idea that the only way to be attractive is to dress in a sexual way to show off their physical attributes, and maintain their physical presence at a high level at all times.  When this happens, we see girls where nothing during commercials or they are perceived as sexual objects in movies as this is the way these individuals were raised and it transfers to show how they need to be successful in society today and live their lives. 

In the end, we realize many women have a great amount of plastic surgeries done to keep changing their body till the women thinks she’s perfect.  Another way women try to become the perfect body image is by going on certain diets in order to maintain their physical character.  What women need to do is to realize that beauty can be found anywhere and does not recite in one form.